The story of these officials soon spread, and it turned out that after these officials entered the barracks, they were only summoned by Chen Xian for a two-day meeting.

At the meeting, Chen Xianxian reprimanded the officials, accusing them of being incompetent and afraid of the election.

After losing his temper, Chen Xian told the officials in a serious and open manner that the reason why he did this was also for the sake of the East China Sea for thousands of generations, for everyone to have no suspicion of each other, and for everyone to share wealth for a long time.

Finally, Chen Xian promised the officials that any official, whether he resigned or lost the election, would be given a large reward according to his rank, which could be a stake in a factory or an agricultural company.

For example, if a prefect resigns or loses the election, Chen Xian rewards him with all the shares of a town-level agricultural company and several factories of a certain size as a retirement guarantee.

In addition, Chen Xian also told the officials that they will have two years of excessive terms, and this year, only the election of the county governor's house will be held, and the election of the first county guard will be held in two years.

The next day, Chen Xian invited a banquet for the officials who had been recruited by the hundred recruits, and after three rounds of drinking, Chen Xian talked to everyone about many ways to win the election.

In the end, when the officials left, they were still a little foggy, and they still couldn't understand what the inevitable connection between this system of handing over the fate of officials to the small people and the long-term peace and stability of the kingdom was, but it was easy for the monarchs and ministers to understand that the officials' hands and feet were tied, and they were still suspicious of each other.

Although I am puzzled and unwilling, but thinking about the previous army reform, Li Shi and their military power were seized in an instant, and these civilian officials could only sigh at each other, but fortunately, although the officials are not good, with Chen Xian's reputation all along, there is no problem for them to become rich men.

Next, Chen Xian took turns summoning officials from Hebei, Goryeo, and Liaodong, and took turns to hold briefings.

At the same time as the local officials were convened for a meeting, Shandong's political reform was also in full swing, and the first county-level Governorate elections began more than a month later.

The whole election took two months to elect the governors of the seven counties of Shandong, and almost a quarter of the governors of each county were businessmen from all over the country.

In elections, the advantage of businessmen lies in the cities and local counties.

Although the county seat is only a town, but the number of people in the county is large, and the weight in the ballot is very large, not to mention the city, the emerging Qingdao City has a population of more than 100,000, which accounts for a considerable proportion of the electoral weight of Langya County.

The small towns were the sphere of influence of the bureaucracy, but the influence of the local merchants had begun to radiate from the county seat to the small town.

At the same time, Chen Xian also did a strange thing, he opened an organization called "Newspaper" in Qingdao, and the newspaper would print a large number of things called "newspapers" every week using the printing technology.

A "newspaper" is a large piece of paper with a lot of words and information printed on it.

In the newspaper, there are not only market information and news from all over the world, but also interesting stories from all over the world, thrilling cases from all over the world, and various scams explained...

For this newspaper, Chen Xian hired a large number of people to go to various places to collect information.

In the beginning, newspapers were distributed free of charge, and only after people were addicted to reading them did they start charging.

Relying on his wealth, Chen Xian quickly opened this newspaper called Donghai Weekly all over major cities.

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While Chen Xian's internal political reforms were in full swing, it took the Mongols only one year to destroy the Western Xia Kingdom.

In view of the stubborn resistance of the Tangut Kingdom, almost all the people of the Tangut Kingdom were slaughtered in a planned manner, and only a small number of craftsmen were left alive.

After conquering Western Xia, the Mongols could not wait to launch an attack on the Jin Kingdom.

Because of Chen Xian's blockade, Mongolia could only attack the Shaanxi region first.

When the Mongolian army came with all its might, when the Mongolian iron cavalry was equipped with five-pound cannons, seven-pound cannons, and even ten-pound siege artillery, there was no suspense about the fall of Shaanxi.

At present, the Mongols and their craftsmen have not been able to produce field sports cars that can withstand ten catties of cannons, and they can only produce seven catties of field guns at most.

But the absence of artillery carriages did not prevent the Mongols from casting nine-pound cannons, they transported them in huge artillery carts, and after transporting them to a predetermined position, they would use cranes to lift the cannons from the artillery carriages, install them on mounds, and fire them.

This cannon could not be used in field battles, but it was suitable for bombarding cities, so the Mongols called it a siege artillery.

In fact, it only took the Mongols half a year to wipe out the Jin army in Shaanxi.

In the past six months, the Jin people did something that made the Mongols extremely annoyed in the narrow valley road east of Tongguan.

Following Chen Xian's example, they built a series of fortresses in the valley road, and equipped them with heavy iron cannons.

At this time, the Jin people's cannon casting technology had lagged behind the Mongols, because the Jin people were still stubbornly casting cannons with pig iron, and they seemed reluctant to use expensive copper, which was equivalent to money, to cast cannons.

However, if it was only fixed on the fortress, the iron cannon would barely be enough.

Of course, the enreavement imitated by the Jin people did not have cement, and they used traditional glutinous rice mortar.

After the Mongols occupied Shaanxi, they found that the outside of Tongguan had been blocked by a fortress, so they wisely stopped the pace of their attack temporarily.

According to the intelligence department, after the occupation of Shaanxi, Genghis Khan quickly cooperated with the local Han landlords, and they obtained their support from the local Han landlords by granting them official positions and managing local powers, as well as collecting local taxes.

With this policy of cooperation, the Mongols received a lot of taxes from the local landlords Haoqiang with almost nothing, and in addition, as a price for submission, the landlords and Haoqiang in various places handed over part of their own armed forces to the Mongols, so that the Mongols quickly recruited more than 100,000 Han troops from the Shaanxi region.

With the help of the Han landlord Haoqiang, the Mongols recruited a large number of craftsmen of various types from the Shaanxi region.

Genghis Khan organized these craftsmen together with the remnants of the Tangut kingdom, as well as the craftsmen he brought back from the Western Regions and Central Asia, and established a huge arsenal in Jingzhaofu (Xi'an) to make military supplies for the Mongol Empire.

After assembling craftsmen who were almost half the world's smallest, the Mongols gained considerable manufacturing capacity.

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